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NEWSALERT: Thursday, September 9, 2004 @ 1413 GMT
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The latest news from Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now
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GENESIS CAPSULE SLAMS BACK TO EARTH
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A small spacecraft carrying priceless samples of the sun crashed into the
Utah desert Wednesday when its stabilizing parachute failed to deploy,
bringing an innovative $264 million mission, NASA's first sample return
flight since the Apollo moonshots, to a disappointing end. (includes
video!)
http://spaceflightnow.com/genesis/040908postimpact.html
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Genesis' science canister loaded with the solar wind samples was
transported by helicopter from the impact site to a holding area next to a
specially constructed cleanroom on the Utah base, NASA announced late
Wednesday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/genesis/status.html
PHOTO GALLERY SHOWS GENESIS LANDING MISHAP
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This collection of pictures recaps the Genesis solar wind sample return
capsule making a high-speed impact into the Utah desert floor after its
chutes failed to deploy during atmospheric descent from space on
Wednesday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/genesis/gallery/01.html
MARS MAY HAVE HAD LARGE SEA NEAR ROVER LANDING SITE
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Spacecraft observations of the landing area for one of NASA's two Mars
rovers now indicate there likely was an enormous sea or lake covering the
region in the past, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder
study.
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040908sea.html
GALACTIC COLLISION REVEALS FATE OF OUR MILKY WAY
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has set its infrared sight on a major
galactic collision and witnessed the future of our own Milky Way galaxy.
Sixty-eight million light-years away, the Antennae galaxies are locked in
a dance of death, with stars being ripped from their orbits and spiral
arms being shredded into streamers that dangle in space. Several billion
years from now, our home might look the same.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0409/08spitzer/
BOEING WINS MAJOR COMMERCIAL SATELLITE CONTRACT
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Boeing announced Wednesday that it has been awarded a contract by DIRECTV
to build three Boeing 702 model satellites. These spacecraft will provide
DIRECTV with unprecedented national and local broadcast coverage in High
Definition Television (HDTV).
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0409/08directv/
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